"At the edge of life you feel that you are no longer master of the life within you, that subjectivity is an illusion, and that un- controllable forces are seething inside you, evolving with no rela- tion to a personal center or a definite, individual rhythm.", essay 2 - On not wanting to live"

"I think there is a difference between the human being and the individual. The individual is a local entity, living in a particular country, belonging to a particular culture, particular society, parti…"

"There were two modern ideas of the State which, they believed, had the same tendency to set up a despotic administrative system. One was the deification of the State and the absolute subordination of …"

"Tulsidas’s poetry, like that of most other bhakti-saints, is assumed to reflect an underpinning of personal religious experience and to contain allusions to events in author’s life."

"For the Norse people, the Man now named Odin, and Chief Norse God, we fancy, was such a man. A Teacher, and Captain of soul and of body; a Hero, of worth immeasurable; admiration for whom, transcendin…"